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The Hard Part of Software Deveoplment is not the Software

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Transcript

  1. development is not the software development is not the software

    The hard part of software The hard part of software

  2. derrick jay parkhurst @8bsn

  3. derrick jay parkhurst @8bsn

  4. derrick jay parkhurst @8bsn

  5. derrick jay parkhurst @8bsn

  6. Build a better mouse trap

  7. Work with a team

  8. PeopleAdmin

  9. Teams We know a good team when we see it

  10. Working with other people can be hard

  11. R ecognition of E xcellence E m pathy for F

    ailure

  12. Recognition of Excellence

  13. “Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work

    to achieve it and education to appreciate it” - Dijkstra

  14. Recognition of excellence is not a zero sum game

  15. Empathy for Failure

  16. Actor/Observer Difference Fundamental attribution error

  17. R ecognition of E xcellence E m pathy for F

    ailure